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L 7432
Professional Development in Leadership
Fall I 2007
INSTRUCTOR:
STAFF
PHONE:
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REQUIRED TEXTS:
Title
Author(s)
Copyright
Publisher
ISBN
Edition
The Leadership Experience
Daft, R. L.
(2005).
Thompson
0-324-26127-6
3rd Ed.
This Course Requires the Purchase of a Course Packet:
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NO
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Argosy University
Ed.D Organizational Leadership
COURSE SYLLABUS
L7432
Professional Development in Leadership
Faculty Information
Faculty Name: STAFF
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Short Faculty Bio:
Course description: Students identify their own leadership styles, their strengths and weaknesses. Further, they evaluate a wide range
of leadership styles against different organizational contexts and create a plan to develop their own leadership competencies as well as
the leadership competencies of their employees.
Course Pre-requisites: None
Required Textbook:
Daft, R. L. (2005). The Leadership Experience 3rd Ed. Thompson. ISBN: 0-324-26127-6
Technology: Pentium III CPU/ Windows 98; 128MB RAM printer; Microsoft Office; Acrobat (full version); Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5.5 (PC), 5.0 (MAC), or Netscape Navigator 4.08; Norton Antivirus.
Course length: 7.5 Weeks
Contact Hours: 45 Hours
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Credit Value: 3.0
Program Outcomes:
1.
Leadership in Teams: Given an organizational situation, identify strategies to develop, maintain, motivate, and sustain self-managed teams using concepts, theories and
techniques of team leadership.
2.
Collaboration in Teams: Given a case study or leadership situation, collect, assimilate, disseminate, and maximize the views of team stakeholders in order to reach
defensible goals with minimal conflict.
3.
Conflict: Given an organizational situation that requires interpersonal or interdepartmental action, identify situations of conflict, diagnose the impact of both overt and
covert behavior, and develop a plan for conflict resolution using evidence-based methods.
4.
Ethics: Given an organizational setting, identify ethical and dilemma-resolution practices, and make evidence-based decisions that integrate personal,
social, and corporate responsibility.
5.
Communication: Communicate orally and in writing to individuals and groups in a concise, clear, organized, and well-supported manner using formats and technology
relevant to the organizational context.
6.
Motivation: Given a leadership situation, identify workplace commitment theories to incorporate influences and power as a leader to motivate
organizational stakeholders.
7.
Research: Given an organizational need to evaluate and defend its actions or potential actions, select, analyze, and apply the assessment techniques,
research methods, and/or statistical analyses needed to evaluate and defend those actions based on evidence
8.
Knowledge and Understanding of the Field: Demonstrate competency in identifying and integrating the major concepts, theoretical perspectives,
historical trends, and key figures in the field of organizational leadership.
9.
Change: Evaluate the impact of change on organizations, organizational members, and other stakeholders and apply appropriate change models and
theories to facilitate successful change.
10. Global diversity: Analyze and evaluate the involvement of diversity in leadership issues, with special attention to the implications of diversity for
individuals, organizations, and societies.
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Course Objectives:
By the end of the course the student will be able to:
1. Identify and examine the major leadership theories, approaches, and models and their contribution to individual and
organizational leadership development. (8)
2. Identify and integrate different leadership styles when planning for personal and organizational leadership development. (1, 2,
8)
3. Evaluate the impact of a global society on personal and organizational development needs. (3, 9, 10)
4. Given case studies, identify conflicts, ethical dilemmas, and diversity demands on leadership and leadership development (3, 4,
10)
5. Using a case history approach, assess existing formal and informal leadership condition and design a literature based
leadership development plan for pertinent personnel. (1, 2, 3, 7. 8, 9)
Assignment Table
Topics
Leadership Theories, Approaches,
and Models
Readings
Daft: Ch 1-3
2
Individual Leadership
Leadership Styles
Leadership Competencies
Leadership and Ethics
Daft: Ch. 4-6
3
Motivating and Empowering
Others—Individuals and Teams
Daft: 7-10
1
Assignments
Reflection Paper: Consider your own organization or
one that you know well. Analyze the formal leaders.
What theories and models best describe the type of
leadership observed? Include at least 4 outside sources
in addition to your text. This 2-4 page paper must be in
APA (5th ed) format and submitted to the instructor.
Be prepared to share your own leadership style(s).
Utilize those tests supplied in course texts as well as
those you find on the Internet. Please share at least 3
leadership style inventories or assessments that you find
(other than course texts). Internet assessments are
allowed.
Before motivating others, you must empower and
motivate yourself. Analyze your own leadership
style(s), including strengths and weaknesses. Consider
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Diversity
Daft: Ch. 11
5
Power and Politics
Direction
Daft: 12-13
6
Culture
Daft: 14
and include strategies to improve your weaknesses, or
discuss leadership approaches that will minimize the
impact of the weaknesses on others. From that
foundation, follow with ideas of ways to motivate others
in an organization that best fit your leadership styles.
This 3-5 APA format paper should be shared in class
and submitted to the instructor
Diversity, whether individual, corporate, or global has
had and will have a tremendous impact on future
leadership. Utilizing course texts in addition to outside
resources, discuss how diversity can and should be
integrated into leadership development. Be sure to
include the concept of diversity of opinion or loyal
opposition. Also include appropriate current examples
in your 3-5 page APA format paper. Be prepared to
share the paper in small discussion groups as well as to
submit to the instructor.
Politics is dirty work, or at least, many think so.
Utilizing course information, as well as outside
resources, be prepared to discuss in small groups how
the political frame, politics, and power can have positive
impacts on both individuals and organizations. Have a
list of current examples to share.
Explore E. Schein’s definition of Culture. Look for
examples of Schein’s three levels of culture in your own
organization and others around you. After determining
your own organization’s manifestations of these levels,
how might you shift the culture to improve leadership
development as an institutional capacity? Create a 5-10
slide Powerpoint outlining the levels and your strategy.
Be prepared to share with the class.
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New Global Demands on
Leadership
Daft: Ch. 15-16
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Wrap-Up
None
Final Project: Create a Leadership Development plan
for an organization of your choice that includes:
a. Your own philosophy of leadership
founded on the theories, approaches, and
models that best match your leadership
styles.
b. A complete description of your own
leadership styles, their strengths and
weaknesses
c. Strategies for improving upon your
leadership weaknesses while continuing
to enhance your strengths
d. Strategies for leadership development
and empowerment for employees in your
organization, facilitating “cascading
leadership” or “leadership. . .treated as an
institutional capacity and not solely as an
individual trait” (O’Toole in Bennis,
Spreitzer, and Cummings, 2001, p. 162)
This plan should be submitted as a 15-25 page paper,
and summarized in a 10-20 slide PowerPoint to share
with the class.
Self-Reflection: Write a 2-3 page APA style self
reflection paper focusing on your personal journey
during this class. Include any “aha’s!” or
disappointments, self discoveries or enlightenments.
Particularly note any new ideas or concepts learned
either from class materials or peers. Summarize by
indicating how you intend to utilize this new knowledge
in the future. Be prepared to share 3 points from your
paper with the class.
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Grading Criteria
Grading Scale
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CF
100 – 93
92 – 90
89 – 88
87 – 83
82 – 80
79 – 78
77 - 73
72 – 70
69 and below
Grading requirements
Attendance/participation
Reflection Papers/Weekly
Assignments
Final Project Paper
Final Project PowerPoint
20%
20%
40%
20%
Library
All resources in Argosy University’s online collection are available through the Internet. The campus librarian will provide students
with links, user IDs, and passwords.
Library Resources: Argosy University’s core online collection features nearly 21,000 full-text journals and 23,000 electronic books
and other content covering all academic subject areas including Business & Economics, Career & General Education, Computers,
Engineering & Applied Science, Humanities, Science, Medicine & Allied Health, and Social & Behavior Sciences. Many titles are
directly accessible through the Online Public Access Catalog at http://library.argosy.edu. Detailed descriptions of online resources are
located at http://library.argosy.edu/misc/onlinedblist.html.
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In addition to online resources, Argosy University’s onsite collections contain a wealth of subject-specific research materials
searchable in the Online Public Access Catalog. Catalog searching is easily limited to individual campus collections. Alternatively,
students can search combined collections of all Argosy University Libraries. Students are encouraged to seek research and reference
assistance from campus librarians.
Information Literacy: Argosy University’s Information Literacy Tutorial was developed to teach students fundamental and
transferable research skills. The tutorial consists of five modules where students learn to select sources appropriate for academic-level
research, search periodical indexes and search engines, and evaluate and cite information. In the tutorial, students study concepts and
practice them through interactions. At the conclusion of each module, they can test their comprehension and receive immediate
feedback. Each module takes less than 20 minutes to complete. Please view the tutorial at http://library.argosy.edu/infolit/
Academic Policies
Academic Dishonesty/Plagiarism: In an effort to foster a spirit of honesty and integrity during the learning process, Argosy University
requires that the submission of all course assignments represent the original work produced by that student. All sources must be
documented through normal scholarly references/citations and all work must be submitted using the Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association, 5th Edition (2001). Washington DC: American Psychological Association (APA) format. Please
refer to Appendix A in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition for thesis and paper format.
Students are encouraged to purchase this manual (required in some courses) and become familiar with its content as well as consult
the Argosy University catalog for further information regarding academic dishonesty and plagiarism.
Scholarly writing: The faculty at Argosy University is dedicated to providing a learning environment that supports scholarly and
ethical writing, free from academic dishonesty and plagiarism. This includes the proper and appropriate referencing of all sources.
You may be asked to submit your course assignments through “Turnitin,” (www.turnitin.com), an online resource established to help
educators develop writing/research skills and detect potential cases of academic dishonesty. Turnitin compares submitted papers to
billions of pages of content and provides a comparison report to your instructor. This comparison detects papers that share common
information and duplicative language.
Americans with Disabilities Act Policy
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It is the policy of Argosy University to make reasonable accommodations for qualified students with disabilities, in accordance with
the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If a student with disabilities needs accommodations, the student must notify the Director
of Student Services. Procedures for documenting student disability and the development of reasonable accommodations will be
provided to the student upon request.
Students will be notified by the Director of Student Services when each request for accommodation is approved or denied in writing
via a designated form. To receive accommodation in class, it is the student’s responsibility to present the form (at his or her
discretion) to the instructor. In an effort to protect student privacy, the Department of Student Services will not discuss the
accommodation needs of any student with instructors. Faculty may not make accommodations for individuals who have not been
approved in this manner.
The Argosy University Statement Regarding Diversity
Argosy University prepares students to serve populations with diverse social, ethnic, economic, and educational experiences. Both
the academic and training curricula are designed to provide an environment in which students can develop the skills and attitudes
essential to working with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
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